I have to admit, chiptune is something I’ve only been really into for a very short while. That’s not to say I haven’t been familiar with it. I knew people still made 8-bit music using old consoles, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NurPhoto/Getty Images Musical genres often form an integral part of a wider scene, and ...

The Smiths, led by king of moping Morrissey, weren’t exactly known for their peppy, upbeat tunes. They made sad, somber music about not getting what you want and not having a stitch to wear, all ...

LONDON (Reuters) - In a central London bar, Niamh Houston, aka Chipzel, is using a handheld Game Boy device to generate pulsating electronic sounds as the crowd around her dances, arms pumping in the ...

Joey Mariano performs at an 8static event. Photo by Marjorie Becker. Joey Mariano performs at an 8static event. Photo by Marjorie Becker. Joey Mariano wants to set the record straight: Chiptune ...

What's nice about the Penny Arcade Expo is that the convention brings together all types of gamers. There really is something for everyone as you see people huddled together with their Nintendo DSs or ...

If you are a certain age, MOS6581 either means nothing to you, or it is a track from Carbon Based Lifeforms. However, if you were a Commodore computer fan 35 years ago, it was a MOS Technologies SID ...

Chiptune music is one the many phenomena that '80s era gaming nostalgia spawned -- but to get into it you need to mod a working 30-year-old NES into an instrument. Now, a company called Assorted Wires ...

[Captain Credible] is a chiptune music artist. He wanted to release an EP, but a regular old em-pee-three was too lame for him, so he made a tiny board with a coin cell, an ATtiny85, and a 3.5mm ...

Haeyoung Kim, a classical pianist, took the stage at a hip Manhattan art space before a crowd of twenty- and thirty-somethings, many shaggy-haired and wearing T-shirts and glasses. As her performance ...

Diode Milliampere holds an ancient Toshiba laptop up to the camera of a more modern laptop, so that the window of our Skype conversation fills with a flickering, constantly refreshing grid of numbers ...

Musical genres often form an integral part of a wider scene, and typically this may include specific fashion brands, particular club nights and so on. Given its computer roots it should come as no ...